RELED101

LAZO, Myles N. Mr. Christian Q. Feliciano

AC-2A November 9, 2020
Activity:
Answer the following questions in essay form.
You will be graded in accord with the following rubric:

10 – Exceeds Expectation 4 – Inadequate

8 – Meets Expectation 2 – Not clear
6 – Needs Improvement

1. What are the major points that was being discussed?

o The mysteries of Christ’s life.
It is part of the mysteries of Lord that he acts so perfectly, and so
smoothly, His past was only gradually built up throughout the great
history of humanity, that He became a man and can therefore be ignored
by his contemporaries and even by history's decisive forces; that He died
and suffered, and risen again, It is only through the trust of the disciples
that they come to mankind to whom He himself reveals His reality; He
keeps on knocking softly at the doors of our souls, and opens our eyes
slowly if we turn our attention to him.

An example of mystery stories I have loved since I was a kid is

from this "Whatever he says to you, do" When there were six clay jars
filled with plain water up to the brim. A ladleful was brought to the
feast's steward. Then, as Jesus tasted it, he did turn in amazement to the
wedding, exclaiming," First everyone serves good wine; and when
people drink freely, then poor wine; but until now you have kept the
good wine.

Jesus did it at Cana in Galilee, and manifested his glory; and, of

course, his followers did not yet grasp all of his mystery, and trusted in
him. But they took their first, stumbling steps into the mystery of our
redemption as their eyes began to drink in his light. God transformed the
water of our humanity into the wine of his godliness.
o Christ’s whole life is a mystery.
Jesus, in an undeniable covenant, is God and man joined. He weds
heaven and earth with his own personality. We suddenly understood
ourselves when faced with His devotion, with the son of God being born,
dying and rising in our middle. We know that He, who is our beginning
and end, our roots and our destiny, hoped all this time that we were
longing for him.

Jesus prays, teaches, cures, casts out devils, feeds crowds, and
calms the waves and the winds. On an unforgettable day, people saw
him, along with Peter, transfigured on Mount Tabor, his face sparkling
like the sun, his clothes white as light. They heard the voice of the
Father delighting his son and dropped in horror on their faces.

o The mystery of Jesus’ life and infancy.

Together with Mary, his mother, we enter into the knowledge of
Christ's mystery. This innocent and virgin Jewish woman chosen to be
the mother of the incarnate Word was the first one to experience the total
mystery of the limitless modesty of God, the mystery through which God
declares that He is love. In her strong faith in the goodness of her lord, in
her absolute docility to the spirit of God, she heard the question raised by
God to her.
The path was opened to the God who is love, with Mary's "let it be
done." God will entrust himself to her and to us in Jesus Christ, the son
of God created man. As time passed, the mystery of the life of her son
will fill her own life more and more. It will fill the lives of the disciples
of Jesus, too. The risen king of the universe will surely ponder all
cultures, countries, and languages. Still, on the part of all believers, the
contemplation of Jesus Christ remains rooted in the first of Mary's,
wondering gaze at the Word incarnate.
Mary saw the mystery, staring at her newborn child who would
become the cornerstone of the faith of the church. Something
infinitely greater and purer than all in life contained the all but secret
 occurrence of the incarnation. When Mary began to understand dimly
from the moment that the spirit overwhelmed her, this boy, this child, the
man who spoke, struggled, died on the cross then, is not only
identified as the son of God, he is the son. He expresses to us the love
that God is in himself in his very presence. He shows everyone the
Father's face, as Jesus himself told his disciples.

And so, even though this child was destined for us to suffer and
die, the mystery of the Word's incarnation is still a mystery of joy.

As what I’ve heard about Christmas even though we aren’t

celebrating this occasion, people here can finally learn what it means to
be human in Jesus Christ, true God and true man: the angel said to the
shepherds—this will be a sign for you, you will find a baby wrapped in
swaddling clothes and lying in the sign of the god of a manger. The sign
given to the baby, to us and to the shepherds, is indeed an amazing
miracle. The emblem of God is His humbleness; how do we prefer a
different sign? An imposing, irresistible sign of the power and grandeur
of God! His sign, however, calls us to faith and love, and so it gives us
hope: this is it. That's what God is like. He is asking us to become more
like him. We open our hearts when we see Him, the God who became a
child. God comes to us as a man in the Liturgy of the Holy Night, so that
we can become fully human.

o The mystery of Jesus’ public life.

Like rain, the second person of the Holy Trinity came down from
heaven to the parched land, yet he was thus the fruit of the earth.  A child
in the arms of Mary, he came as something of a god who showed his face
and opened his heart to everybody, as the bridge that definitely brings
together man and God. The mother of Jesus was the first witness of the
wonderful union of the divine and human natures in one person of the
Word, in the silent greeting of the angel and in the poverty of the stable
at Bethlehem.
 We begin to understand more about the Lord who would make such
a gift of himself by considering this boy, who alone reveals God
completely to us. We understand what could make God come to us not
with violence but in poverty, and with a gentleness that in adoration
brought rulers to their knees. And we glimpse the inner life of love that
God has opened up to us. This unfathomable occurrence filled Apostle
John with wonder, like Mary. The contemplation of all believers is still
filled with this wonderful event.

People know that in this man there was something marvelous that
they didn't understand, and that He was deserving of their love and
faithfulness. And they found, when they followed Him from day to day,
that when the ancient psalms of Israel were prayed, the words were filled
with a new and unquantifiable light.
The wonderful gaze of Mary was reflected in John the Baptist’s
glorious gaze, when he saw Jesus rush to him to receive the "baptism of
forgiveness for the sake of repentance" The remission of sins. John
caught it at that moment, a glimpse of how far God descended as his
father came down. Sent his beloved son to a sin-disfigured world. John
saw, then, a sinless man, even though He was several times tempted
by Satan, he was then found descending into the "darkness of man"
Away from Heaven. John the Baptist witnessed the baptism of Christ as
Israel's the long-anticipated Messiah loaded upon his shoulders the
weight of all mankind's remorse "and" drag it down into the depths of the
Jordan. Jesus "inaugurated his public action in this way by entering into
the role of sinners." His inaugural motion was that of a projection of the
cross.

This moment, in which the incarnate son descended into the waters
that symbolized death, was the moment when the mission of Jesus was
confirmed. In order to show the face of the God who is love, Jesus was
sent to this moment, "in which the earth of souls is arid.” John the
Baptist saw the spirit fall and linger upon the one sent to bring the earth
back to Heaven, and the last and strongest of the prophets of the old
covenant heard the voice of the father for a moment. This man who'd
 already spent his life planning the way of the Lord visualized the
ineffable communion that is united in love, father, son, and Holy Spirit. 

o More Jesus’ mysterious life.

From the swaddling garments of his birth to the pain of his passion.
All in Jesus ' life was a symbol of his mystery, even the shroud of his
resurrection. Shown to us as plainly as possible that the mystery of the
Word's incarnation is a mystery of love that is fathomless. It is the
mystery of the Light of Heaven.

One night, Jesus would make his approaching death an act of love
by transforming the bread he broke for them and the wine he handed to
them into his body and blood. He said, "No one is taking my life from
me." He gave it freely to the world and, above all, to his father's love.

Before the incredible gaze of 11 of the apostles, the son of the

apostles God thanked his father as he blessed, and broke. He gave them
bread, he gave himself completely for the love of humanity. “This is my
body, for which it is given in memory of me, do this. This cup, which is
the New Covenant poured out for you is in my blood.” Those are the
New Covenant’s words. They are the ones that the words of love are
more powerful than death. A that chaotic night turned hatred into
triumph.

"Father, I commend my spirit into your hands," Jesus finally cried,

"he bowed his head," and handed over the spirit that bound father and
son, making even his death a revelation of God's unbreakable
communion of love. The centurion himself, the unbeliever who knew
none of them, "Recognizing this radiant modesty, the psalms and
prophets saw the glory of this love: "When the centurion who stood
before him saw that he had thus breathed his last, he said, 'Truly, this
man was the Son of God,'

The universe, in truth and tenderness, has been received. The "real
love" that "can give nothing less" was revealed by God's son. Because
God is a fellowship of love, a fellowship of love "The son descended into
misery," wanting to pour himself out, “The hell of our isolation, also.
 The gentleness of his arrival It gave way to the extreme impotence of the
cross and Oh, death. When that happened, the descent of God into the
barren the universe has shown itself to be a mystery of fruitfulness in
love.

2. What are the significance and challenges of these points to our current
situation?
Nowadays these points really are of significance. For if we have this
steadfast faith in the mystery that is possible with the hands of God, then we
can overcome anything. Faith can be possessed by all kinds of people with
different backgrounds, and of different ages, ethnicity, languages, and even
economic status, God can also use other people who are not afraid of fully
trusting Him or what we call having faith, and for a greater purpose, this faith
produces enormous power. What the Bible tells us is that faith and power have
a direct correlation. The more faith we put in God, the more we allow God to
guide our lives, the more strength and blessing we will be receiving in this life.

But the challenge is the existence of poverty, the unstoppable COVID-

19, the uncommon adjustments we are dealing with. People more often lose
their hope, there are some who are already questioning the power and even
presence of the living Lord. There are individuals who have chosen to take
away their faith and live an evil life. These shouldn’t be tolerated in any kind
of situation.

Faith and belief that mysteries do happen can turn the world upside
down. If they don’t believe in mystery maybe they have to be reminded that
they are one. As we breathe, as we blink our eyes, as we continue to live with
our family—those are little miracles we have to appreciate. Nothing’s
impossible with the Lord and that was a proven matter. I am also speaking
here from experience and prayer is my way of asking for God’s mercy and
mysteries in my life—and that tactic never failed.
3. What solutions could we apply for these challenges?

A good idea is for us to let God use us as instruments to share His

greatness as what Christ did. We can really make a change when those people
who’ve already been influenced by the evil hear and see from us what God
wants them to do and how it feels to serve the Lord who created them and who
is protecting them in every second of their lives.

They can also be enlightened by God’s mystery through us and

everybody deserves to experience that. Also, we can help them by being
charitable, helpful and approachable which may lead to lessened worries and
disappointments in this life. We should be friends to them and don’t think that
they will no longer have the chance to go back to the track that God wants us
to walk to reach our respective destinations.

One of the best ways I know to solve any problem or succeed over any
challenge is prayer. Let us pray for those who are losing their hope and faith.
Let us ask for God’s help to bring them back on the right path for a surely
glorifying, peaceful and love-filled world. This is for sure what God wanted to
happen and so our Jesus Christ.

We can combat everything as long as we’re together—equipped with

faith, love, hope and the power of mystery coming from God, Christ and the
Holy Spirit.